Venice of Africa in Ganvié, Benin by Apolline Guillerot-Malick / SOPA Images
Known as the Venice of Africa, Ganvié, on Lake Nokoué, is built almost entirely on stilts. The first inhabitants of the lake settled here in the eighteenth century to escape slave raids. Today, tens of thousands of people live on the lake, mainly from fishing.
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